On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:35 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > I was looking at that :)
> > Question is ... does it really serve a purpose?
> > The purpose of the distro is to install on servers and workstations. A
> > live CD doesn't do that. Knoppix is very good in this market, so I
> > think the usefulness is limited.
>
> Especially since there are already "Fedora Live" CDs anyway.
>
> One of the reasons for RHEL is for a fixed, integrated tested package
> set based on but beyond that of Fedora Core. If I want to start playing
> around with a "customized" Fedora-based distro, then I'm just going to
> go with Fedora itself, instead of RHEL (or CentOS).
>
> > BUT ... one good thing it would do is allow you an easy way to see if
> > your hardware works without downloading the whole shebang ... which is a
> > positive.
>
> "Fedora Live CDs" should do the same. Just line up the kernel version.
>
> > We may look at doing this after CentOS-4.1 is done and I have some of
> > the automated scripts working the way I want.
>
> The more CentOS would get away from RHEL, the more I'd just do my own
> configuration management from Fedora Core instead. I mean, I've built
> equivalent APT-RPM repositories of Fedora Core by lining up the packages.
>
> The reason why I like to use CentOS is so I don't have to do my own
> configuration management of Fedora Core to get the same thing of RHEL.
> It saves me a lot of effort.
If it were to be done ... it would be in addition to the current CentOS
distros. Main-line centos would stay exactly as it is. Just be a LiveCD
that contains all the current CentOS software at the time of it being
built.
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